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Some Of My Images Used As Book Covers - before and after Part 2

 Book Covers - Before and After Part 2 Some time ago I created a post showing some of my images used as covers for books.  I am always curious how my wok is used, sometimes I am disappointed, but most of the time it is a pleasure to see the designs and the usage. So here we go: In these cases my original image hasn't been changed that much, most of the time only a crop and of course title and author.  Sometimes it is hard to make out my own design as you can see in this image:  My images are available for licensing through my agencies Trevillionimages   and   Arcangel Images or find something on my home page. Thanks very much. Dirk
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Free Texture Wednesday VIII

Hello, I am busy working on a colorful Spring Texture Pack, which is about to be released in a few days. At the moment I am using them on a variety of new pictures and I must say I am enjoying what beautiful effect they have...

Anyway, all that creatting and testing kept me from posting, so I thought I give away one freebie that will be available in the Build Your Own Texture Pack.
Please click on the picture to download the texture from Picasa!


Vintage Grunge
Aus Free textures


I used this texture on one of my forest fog pictures and it added to the already dense atmosphere:


   
As usual I also made a screen shot of the PS layers to show how I used the texture:







To get a rather strong texture effect I first used it in Multiply mode and then copied it and brightened up the whole picture using Soft Light at 30%. Because the Multiply layer made the tree trunks too dark I made a selection and added a layer mask at 50% to recover some light and detail on the trees.
By applying curves I enhanced the contrast and finished with levels trying to add some light to the yellow fog.

 Hope to see you back here in  a few days when I will be launching the new textures.

Thanks!

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